Limner — is a term applied to the art of untrained and unnamed painters of the American Colonies, or to the artists themselves. Typically the art is ornamental decoration for signs, clock faces, fire buckets, fire screens, etc. The term is derived from… … Wikipedia

limner — /lim neuhr/, n. 1. a person who paints or draws. 2. an itinerant painter of 18th century America who usually had little formal training. 3. a person who describes or depicts in words: an essayist known as a fine limner of prominent people and… … Universalium